Duong Thu Huong, Author , trans. from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong. Hyperion $24.95 (402p) ISBN 978-1-4013-6664-3
Acclaimed author and political dissident Huong (Memories of a Pure Spring
, etc.) takes a hard look at the long-term repercussions of war in her latest novel. The luxuriantly beautiful village of Mountain Hamlet in central Vietnam is the setting for
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Duong Thu Huong, Author, Nina McPherson, Translator, Phan Huy Duong, Translator , trans. from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong. Hyperion East $23.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6417-1
Vietnamese dissident Duong's first novel, now available for the first time in the U.S. (the writer's previously published books in English include Memories of a Pure Spring
and Novel Without a Name), is an exposure of the corruption beneath
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Duong Thu Huong, Author, Nina McPherson, Translator, Phan Huy Duong, Translator William Morrow & Company $20 (270p) ISBN 978-0-688-11445-9
This staunchly unsentimental, evocative novel, originally published in Huong's native Vietnam and beautifully translated by Duong and McPherson, offers a narrative rich in detail and free of cliche. The author, who lives with her children in Hanoi,...
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Duong Thu Huong, Author, Doung Thu Huong, Author, Nina McPherson, Translator Hyperion Books $23.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6581-9
Often considered the literary conscience of postwar Vietnam, Huong (Paradise of the Blind) tells the wrenching story of three people coping with the brutal realities, disillusion and dispossession suffered by Vietnamese artists and intellectuals...
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Duong Thu Huong, trans. from the Vietnamese by Stephen B. Young and Hoa Pham Young. Viking, $32.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-02375-2
Vietnamese exile Huong’s fifth novel to be published in America (after No Man’s Land) is a dense, complex exploration of love, loss, and destruction of the personal for a feigned “greater good.” The story focuses on the nameless aging Vietnamese “Pre
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Duong Thu Huong, Author, Thu Hng Dng, Author, Nina McPherson, Author Penguin Books $15 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-025510-2
Vietnamese novelist Huong, who has been imprisoned for her political beliefs, presents the story of a disillusioned soldier in a book that was banned in her native country. (June)
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Duong Thu Huong, Author, Thu Hng Dng, Author, Duong Thu-Huong, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (292p) ISBN 978-0-688-12782-4
In the American mindset, two archetypes of the Vietnamese people have survived the end of the war in 1975-that of the unctuous and corrupt Southerner and that of the fanatically robotic Northerner. Neither stereotype, of course, is particularly...
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